Khalil Mamut is a

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refugee, imprisoned for seven years at the

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s, in

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. The US Department of Defense estimated that Mamut was born in

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, Xinjiang, China, in 1977 and assigned him the Guantanamo Internment Serial Number 278. Mamut is one of the 22 Uighurs held in Guantanamo for many years despite it becoming clear early on that they were innocent.China's Uighurs trapped at Guantanamo
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'', November 4, 2004 He won his

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in 2008. Judge Ricardo Urbina declared his detention as unlawful and ordered to set him free in the

. He was sent to

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in June 2009.

Sent to Bermuda

Abdul Helil Mamut, and three other Uyghurs Huzaifa Parhat, Emam Abdulahat and Jalal Jalaladin were set free in Bermuda on June 11, 2009.

References

External links

From Guantánamo to the United States: The Story of the Wrongly Imprisoned Uighurs
Andy Worthington October 9, 2008
Judge Ricardo Urbina's unclassified opinion (redacted version)MOTIONS/STATUS HEARING - UIGHURS CASES BEFORE THE HONORABLE RICARDO M. URBINA
*Human Rights First
Habeas Works: Federal Courts' Proven Capacity to Handle Guantánamo Cases (2010)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mamut, Khalil Guantanamo detainees known to have been released People from Kashgar Uyghur people Living people 1977 births Chinese extrajudicial prisoners of the United States